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Glassunion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-14-10 08:02 PM
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DGU in the Aloha State.
Some of the strictest gun laws in the union are in Hawaii.
Almost 0 CCW permits have been issued.

http://www.kitv.com/news/23020567/detail.html

Two suspected robbers were seriously wounded Tuesday by a woman police said may have been defending herself and her wounded boyfriend.

*snip*

Police said two men armed with guns and zip-ties approached the home, which was rented by the couple and their two young children.

*snip*

This was the second time the couple faced robbers in their home. Last year, police reported two victims were tied up and robbed in the house by four armed suspects. Neighbors said after that incident the couple reassured them that it was a purely random incident, and nothing like that would ever happen again.


Well, I guess it is a good thing nothing like that ever happened again. :sarcasm:

I'm sure the bad guys were just there to sell cookies to their children.

I thought it was all part of the Girl Scout's selling materials:
1 Radio Flyer #18 classic red wagon
10 Cases of cookies
1 Clipboard
1 Gun
1 Bundle of Zip-Ties
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paulsby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-14-10 08:06 PM
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1. as a former hawaii cop, i have a story
it's like true and stuff too!

i'm in the police academy and we are discussing the crime of carrying concealed w/o a permit

instructor is a former bigwig with my agency, now hired as a contractor for instructing this and some other classes.

iow, he was a cop in hawaii for over 2 decades and is an instructor

he's going on and on about this stuff and i ask a simple question "what does a permit LOOK LIKE?"

he looks quizzical for a second, and says "i don't know, i've never seen one"

a day or two later, he returns with a voided CCW blank and shows it to the class.

in his entire career, he had never SEEN a CCW permit

THAT's how rare they are in hawaii

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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 10:04 AM
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4. Did you ever have to arrest Wo Fat?
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paulsby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 10:57 AM
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5. no, but
bu la'ia tried to give me one false crack

http://www.thelyricarchive.com/album/200176/False-Crack

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oneshooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 05:14 PM
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6.  They are as rare as a D.C. issued one. Yes you "can" get one in D.C.. n/t
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east texas lib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-14-10 09:00 PM
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2. Perhaps they were just confused about what was their property and what wasn't...
And were just in the intended property donors home to help them figure it all out. I do hope that the result of their labors was a positive experience with regard to future entrepreneurial endeavors. ;-)
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SteveM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-15-10 09:58 AM
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3. Burlaries and home invasions often beget more of the same...
I cannot understand this "randomness" argument. Once a place has been burglarized, broken-in to, and invaded, it is likely another attack will be committed on the same place, especially if there are no visible changes in "home defense."

If your home is burglarized, then you better make SOME kind of obvious change in home defense; otherwise, the punks will be back.
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